Britain: The Miners' Moscow Connection

Soviets offer food, cash and vacations to help fuel a strike

It has been a classic thaw. Ever since British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proffered an olive branch to the Soviet Union over a year ago with the comment that "we have to live together on the same planet," relations between London and Moscow have steadily improved. According to some, this detente not only has helped spur the renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms talks but has also produced diplomatic rewards for Britain: on Dec. 15, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev will lead a delegation to...

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